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GB-110/JES/COR/20/45
Title
John Baker, Hampstead, [Middlesex], to Sir James Edward Smith
Letter date
4 Jun 1822
Author(s)
John Baker 1741-1818
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/20/45 from John Baker, Hampstead, [Middlesex], to Sir James Edward Smith (4 June 1822)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/20/45 from John Baker, Hampstead, [Middlesex], to Sir James Edward Smith (4 June 1822) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Baker, John
Sent from:
Hampstead, Middlesex
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Renews their acquaintance, first made under "most academic roof" of Sir Joseph Banks. Invites Smith to Chelsea for Garden Committee of the Apothecaries Company, of which he is Warden, also invites Smith to the Apothecaries Hall. Received visit from [Thomas] Purton, author of the "Midland Flora"; forgot to asks him about a 'Byssus septica' that occasionally appears in his cellar and leaves everything covered in "very fine soft red particles". His son-in-law, [John] Bowyer Nichols [(1779-1863), painter and antiquary], requested a review of Purton's "Appendix to the Midland Flora" in next "Gentleman's Magazine"; asks Smith's opinion of the work.
Letter date:
4 Jun 1822
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
20.7
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 26 [Jun 1822] |
| Related Material | Purton, T, and Sowerby, J (illust.), (1817). "A botanical description of British plants, in the Midland Counties, particularly of those in the neighbourhood of Alcester ... Embellished with eight coloured engravings, by James Sowerby." Stratford-upon-Avon: J. Ward. Purton, T, (1821). "An appendix to 'The Midland flora' ... in two parts ... embellished with thirty coloured engravings." London: Printed for the author. |
| Finding Aids | Dawson, W R (1934). "Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of The Linnean Society - Part I. The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith", London: Linnean Society. |
